Re: ioread32 endianess.

From: Kyle McMartin
Date: Tue Feb 27 2007 - 08:20:51 EST


On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:31:20PM +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Than how should one write a portable endian-independent driver? Should
> I wrap ioread32 with an le32_to_cpu?
>

PCI is always little endian, unless it's not. In which case you're probably
dealing with a graphics card which likely has some kind of palindromic
register which you can read and write to set the endianness of the host
interface. Whoo. Run on sentence.
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